Mr Oscar Festa

Mr Oscar Festa

Enterprise Fellow

Research interests

  • Holistic design optimisation for Floating Offshore Wind (FOW)
  • Hydrodynamics, stationkeeping and mooring analysis 
  • Machine learning and recurrent neural networks

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Dr. Oscar Festa is a post-doctoral researcher and Enterprise Fellow within the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences at the ¾ÅÉ«ÊÓÆµ. Oscar's research focuses on machine learning methods for the design and analysis of floating offshore wind turbines.

Oscar currently leads Xmoor, a university spin-out company developing commercial software for design optimisation of floating offshore wind turbines.

Oscar reports to Professor Susan Gourvenec, Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies in Intelligent & Resilient Ocean Engineering (IROE).